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Proceedings of STPIS'21
Preface
This volume contains selected papers presented at STPIS'21: The 7th International
Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS development (STPIS’21) took place
in connection with the 18th conference of the Italian Chapter of the Association for
Information Systems (ItAIS’21), in Trento in Italy. STPIS’21 was held virtually. The
local organizing chairs were Aurelio Ravarini, LIUC Business School, Italy and
Alessio Maria Braccini, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Italy.
Importance of socio-technical perspective in research and practice
A socio-technical perspective sees an organization as a combination of two
components – a social and a technical one. The real pattern of behaviour in the
organization is determined by how well these parts fit each other. While analysing
system problems of getting things done, adequate consideration should be given to
technology as well as informal and formal interactions of people.
Despite that a socio-technical perspective has been around for over a half century,
it is often forgotten in the IS discourse today. Consequently, many “new approaches”
appear to reflect on IS systems problems, such as modern IT systems poorly adjusted
to the external or/and internal environment (e.g. market, organizational culture) of
organizations in which they are (to be) deployed. We strongly believe that it is high
time the social-technical perspective took its rightful place in IS research, practice and
teaching.
The seventh STPIS workshop
The main purpose of the workshop is to arrange discussions on using a socio-technical
perspective in IS development, with the long-term goal of making this workshop a
meeting place for the community of IS researchers and practitioners interested in the
socio-technical approach.
Due to the present situation with the pandemic COVID-19, the conference was
organized virtually, with Aurelio Ravarini, LIUC Business School and Alessio Maria
Braccini, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, as the local organizing chair. The
workshops were organized in sessions during the two days. These workshop
proceedings are a continuation from previous year’s attempt to set up a broad
platform for discussion and debate on the benefits and problems of viewing
information systems as socio-technical artefacts. In all, 23 papers were presented at
the conference with approximately 50 participants.
The participants were invited to further develop the submissions as short or long
papers for inclusion in the STPIS’21 proceedings. There were 31 draft papers
submitted by 56 different authors in total. The submissions were of various kinds –
idea and research papers, experience reports, position papers, posters and multimedia
presentations. Of these, 23 papers were further reviewed, revised and accepted for
presentation after double blind review. Each submission was reviewed by at least two
program committee members. Some papers were reclassified, e.g. from a research
paper to a position paper. Two of the papers are invited research essays.
We have gone through all 23 papers and put them in groups, not always perfect, but
reasonably related. We also tried to get some spread or more than half of the papers
would be in the same group. So we looked at not only the main subject, but also what it
could be related to. The topics cover various application domains where a socio-
technical perspective can be used, such as work system, organizational change,
education, industry 4.0 and industry 5.0, systemic sustainability, sociotechnical
security, all related to individual and organizational issues, production, storage,
healthcare, etc.
The program included two invited papers, which have also been reviewed, revised
Proceedings of STPIS'21
and included in the proceedings. This year the invited papers were by Professor Per
Flensburg with the title ‘Scandinavian approaches in systems development’ and
Professor Robert Winter with the title ‘Beyond Incentives and Sanctions – Extending
the Portfolio of IS Coordination by Systematic Design of Informal Interventions’.
These were devoted to the spread and relevance of Sociotechnical Approaches in
contemporary society.
Acknowledgements
The organizers are grateful to the members of Program Committee for their excellent
work of reviewing submitted papers in short time. We also want to extend our thanks
to EasyChair for providing us with a tool to manage the workshop proceedings free of
charge. We are also much obliged to the Local organizers for their support in
providing a virtual conference platform and organizing the STPIS workshop.
November, 9 2021
STPIS 2021 Organizing Committee
Peter Bednar Jonathan Crellin
Alexander Nolte David Edwards
Anna Sigríður Íslind Amany Elbanna
Mikko Rajanen Umberto Fiaccadori
Helena Vallo Hult Antoine Harfouche
Fatema Zaghloul Helena Vallo Hult
Anna Sigridur Islind
Local Organizing Chair Joakim Kavrestad
Alessio Maria Braccini Markus Lahtinen
Aurelio Ravarini Marija Topuzovska Latkovikj
Angela Locoro
Advisory Board Emanuele Gabriel Margherita
Steven Alter Alexander Nolte
Ilia Bider Mariusz Nowostawski
Per Flensburg Federico Pigni
Thomas Herrmann Mikko Rajanen
Stewart Kowalski Gil Regev
Eleanor Wynn Moufida Sadok
Natalie Pang Lee San
Program Committee Vasilena Shiderova
Peter Bednar Paolo Spagnoletti
Alex Bennett Laura Tarantino
Ilia Bider Christine Welch
Francesco Bolici Eleanor Wynn
Alessio Maria Braccini Fatema Zaghloul
Federico Cabitza Stefano Za
Andrea Carugati
Roberta Cuel
Edited by Peter Bednar, Alessio Maria Braccini, Alexander Nolte, Mikko Rajanen, Aurelio Ravarini, Anna
Sigríður Íslind, Helena Vallo-Hult and Fatema Zaghloul
7th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS development (STPIS 2021) 11-12 October 2021, Trento, Italy
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